Between 08 and 13 July 2012 nine planning professionals took part in an ISOCARP UPAT workshop in Perm, Russia. One of the challenges facing Perm in the future is changing its identity from that of an industrial city into a knowledge hub and a science city on the border of Europe and Asia. The...
Workshop Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area
posted by Martin Dubbeling
A team of experts of the ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners, participated in an International Advisory Workshop for the Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area on 11-16 March 2012. During that workshop the experts observed the field conditions in the vast planning area and were briefed about the objectives of the Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area. The ISOCARP experts carefully reviewed the plans, shared their experiences of related international practices, and initiated sketch sessions in which opportunities and threats of the planning area were discussed. The Wuhan Planning and Design Institute (WPDI) is a public sector...
The Netherlands in T...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
The Netherlands is world renowned for the way in which urban planning, infrastructure, ecology and the environment form an integral part of the practice of spatial planning and urban design. The country has a vigorous and open economy, an entrepreneurial society with its metropolis situated...
Inspirational Values...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
Mobility, infrastructure, security and environment are key factors in the management of urban areas. But is quality of life in urban areas simply the sum of these key factors or does a liveable city require something more? Making cities liveable is a challenge that concerns all of us. It is...
Young Planning Profe...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
In 2010, ISOCARP celebrated the 20th Young Planning Professionals Workshop Anniversary during the 46st ISOCARP Congress in Nairobi, Kenya. At this occasion I had the honour and privilege to be the Young Planning Professionals workshop coordinator. Over a concentrated period of three to seven...
Liveable Cities in a...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
The fate of the planet seems to hang on how well mass urbanisation is planned and managed over the next few decades. An ISOCARP Urban Planning and Advisory Team, meeting in Singapore in July 2010, developed a fresh analysis of rapid urbanisation and proposed radically new approaches to...
The Netherlands 2020...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
The Netherlands is a densely populated, low-lying coastal country and besides that it is the delta of the rivers Rijn, Maas and Schelde. There are also many smaller rivers and some 3000 polders. The metropolitan area ‘Randstad’, the heart of the Dutch economy, is largely situated below sea...
Towards low carbon c...
posted by Martin Dubbeling
Sustainable urban planning is a challenge for planners and city managers. It fits in well with other goals and objectives in the field of urban planning, urban design and urban management, such as preserving and improving a city’s identity and values while, at the same time, making it...